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How To Decrement Dates By 1 In MySQL

Posted by Gowry

14 Feb, 2012

If you have a date, and you want to decrement it by 1 day, you can use the DATE_SUB(date, INTERVAL 1 DAY) function. You can also use the date interval subtraction operation as "date - INTERVAL 1 DAY". The tutorial exercise below gives you some good examples:SELECT DATE_SUB(DATE('1997-03-01'), INTERVAL 1 DAY) FROM DUAL; 1997-02-28SELECT DATE('1997-01-31') - INTERVAL 1 DAY FROM DUAL; 1997-02-28